The video above documents the 2022-2023 School year at Sha'arei Bina Torah Academy For Girls, grades 6-12 for visual arts classes!
Congratulations to the following students for receiving an award in the 2023 FAEA K-12 Student Art Assessment & Virtual Exhibition. There were 1,868 student entries across the State of Florida. All entries were scored anonymously by trained adjudicators using the specific rubrics. Mrs. Nerissa Balland, our art teacher selected nine students to enter artwork that was created during this academic school year in art class. ALL nine SBTAG students received an award based on their assessment scores. Congratulations to Mrs. Ballard and Our Students.
Gita Klein, Award of Merit
Shifra Suissa, Batya Gewirtz, Rena Yechieli, Noya Sedaghati, Alegre Elgozy, Alyssa Banayan, Sarah Waisman, Daniella Wachtel : Award of Emerging Artist
Below are the lessons and accolades with students in 2022-23 as an educator at Sha'aRei Bina Torah Academy For Girls, Hollywood FL. I have 105 students and 18 classes weekly, spanning grades 6-12.
Welcome to the Shaarei Bina student art show. Throughout the school year, you have been exploring the seven elements of art in various projects using professional-grade art materials, such as acrylic paint, graphite pencils, charcoal sticks, and mixed media application. In addition to working with new materials, you learned to practice new techniques and understand to discern between visual accuracy opposed to atheistic satisfaction. Middle and High school students have worked on life drawing, gesture drawing, reference drawing, painting, and mixed media using differentiated methods to coincide with each student's skill level. Our show will be up until May 12th.
Middle & High School: Visual Arts, Advanced Art, and Graphic Design Classes
ABOVE DESCRIPTION: Advanced Art and Graphic Arts students had the opportunity to visit MiArt Space Gallery in Wynwood. Students had the opportunity to tour the gallery and familiarize themselves with the 13 artists that were exhibiting for Miami Art Week. In addition, Mrs. Balland (one of the featured gallery artists) presented her artwork, alongside Ana Moreno (Gallery Owner) who discussed NFT's, the exhibition, and brief summarization of Art Basel and Miami Art Week.
workshops (Pre-K, Elementary, Undergraduate & Adult Learning) different objectives.
In 2019, I was invited to work with 2 groups from UM Hillel on the art of co-elevation through the Womens Empowerment Series funded by GMJF. I developed and facilitated two 90 minute sessions with 60 undergraduates from the University of Miami discussing and identifying what it meant to be Jewish and translating that into a group visual arts project. This group project was centered around collaboration. Each person identified with being Jewish or living Jewishly. Together we collected our findings document them by inscribing them on in different ways on natural fabrics creating a decorative ribbon branch. The end result was one art piece from both workshops to be hung exhibited in the building.
ABOVE VIDEO: Professional Development Workshop for Early Childhood Educators at Suzy Fischer ECA
ABOVE VIDEO: Pre-K Purim Art Project 3 wks for 3 1.5 hour sessions per week.
ABOVE VIDEO: Local Jewish NonProfit hosts: Mindful Art Workshop
ABOVE VIDEO: Professional Development Sessions for Early Childhood Educators at Suzy Fischer ECA
ABOVE VIDEO: Women and Teen Workshop during Women's Month: Discussing Self-Love - What's Love Got To Do With It.
ABOVE VIDEO: Workshop at the MARJCC in North Miami Beach for the Sababba's Group.
Action Shot Photos
VOLUNTEER PROJECTS ELEMENTARY
ABOVE DESCRIPTION: April is Autism Awareness month! This is not my classroom door! In fact, I volunteered to work with my first grader's class to create the door design for the contest at Fox Trail Elementary School. I wanted the kids to participate in making items for the door. They all traced and cut out their hands on glitter paper. These are the hands supporting the child looking up at the moon. In order to hide the battery packs from our twinkle lights I made little boxes and placed fun fact cards about Autism! I loved this quote “Acceptance is the greatest gift you can give to someone with Autism”.
I was invited to lead both Kindergarten Meet The Masters for my child's class in October of 2022. Inspired by Halloween, I focused on mask making (without discussing Halloween. I taught the students about Kimmy Cantrell, sculptor and mask maker, we discussed the functions of different types of masks, along with different materials to make masks, and where we might see masks displayed. Then we made masks inspired by Kimmy Cantrell's artwork.
ABOVE DESCRIPTION: I was invited to lead second grade Meet The Masters for my child's class in October of 2022. I focused on POP ART. I taught the students about the forefathers of POP ART MOVEMENT, we discussed the elements of art and focused on color, line, and shape when drafting out some ideas. Then we spent the majority of the period creating socks that they could keep and have. This was the first time second graders worked with PERMANENT MARKERS!!!
Credits:
photo & video credits by: Nerissa Balland